Am I mistaken? Sternbergia lutea here is an autumn bloomer. It is native herein Israel and I will be on the lookout for seed. I wonder if the ones I planted are actually from native stock or if they made the "great circle route" and are imported by the nursery trade from Holland? Shmuel Silinsky Jerusalem Israel zone 9, winter rain - dry summer On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:34 AM, <Jadeboy48@aol.com> wrote: > Dear Jim ,Thanks for your information. I am very familiar when you have a > self sterility problem with certain flowers. As a retired grower once I > know once other growers find a clone of something that grows well and has > some > good qualities growers will just multiply that clone.The problem is losing > genetic diversity. One disease can wipe out a susceptible clone and then it > is gone, maybe forever.-Russ H. > > > In a message dated 3/29/2013 5:48:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > jshields@indy.net writes: > > Another possibility is that we are seeing one single clone making up the > commercial stock of Sternbergia. It is probably self-sterile, as many > other plants in the Amaryllidaceae are. All you might need to get seeds > would be some live pollen from a different clone of the same species. > > Another problem is that S. lutea occurs as triploid (2n = 3x = 33) as well > as the diploid (2n = 22) form. Triploids are usually sterile. See: > http://cites.com/ > > http://bulbs.myspecies.info/content/… > > I would guess that you will have to find seeds of the diploid form, from > one of the seed exchanges or from someone like the Archibalds. Good > luck! > > Jim Shields > > > > > At 08:23 PM 3/29/2013 +1300, you wrote: > >Russ, Sternbergia does not set seed. It is something to do with diploid > >or whatever. Do you have one which does set seed, as there is a seed > >setting one. But the most often grown one does not set seed. > > > >Ina > > ************************************************* > Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 > P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ > Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA > Lat. 40° 02.8' N, Long. 086° 06.6' W > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >